What is One World Week?

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One World Week is a great way to learn more about the world in which we all live where we make links between our owns lives with those of others at personal, local, national, and global levels.

To help you get involved in this week of youth-led awareness raising, education and action taking place throughout Ireland, we are providing mini-grants, training and hosting a Youth Summit on November 23rd!

We'll also be producing a resource for youth workers to support you, so watch this space! If you have any questions on the best way you or your youth group can get involved please get in touch via deved@nyci.ie or 01 4784122.

One World Week is a week of youth-led awareness raising, education and action that takes place throughout Ireland during the third week in November every year. During One World Week young people learn about local and global justice issues and are empowered to take action to bring about positive change. Young people and those who work with young people from all over the country undertake activities from the education pack. Some organise public events, quizzes and debates, invite guest speakers or have intercultural evenings. Many groups publicly display the work they have done in preparation for One World Week, or lead other people in doing a public action.

One World Week gives us the opportunity to:

Explore the links between our own lives and those of others we may not even know, so that we can work together for justice and peace

Celebrate the richness and diversity of belonging to one world

Recognise our responsibility to care for the earth and share its resources fairly

Bring issues of justice, rights, and equality to the centre of our family, youth organisation, school, church, friends, work and community life

Work in solidarity with others in Ireland, Europe, and globally

One World Week has always aimed to involve and support young people and those who with young people in their own education rather than providing them with ready-made programmes and answers.

One World Week is based on the assumption that development education is best pursued within a framework of celebration. People are the most important resource in this form of education as they explore the world they live in, become aware of their potential for change, and commit themselves to take action.

Peace, Justice, the Sustainable Developments Goals and YOUth!

One World Week is a week of youth-led awareness raising, education and action that takes place throughout Ireland during November every year. Young people and those who work with young people learn about local, national and global justice issues and take action to bring about positive change.

Activism, the SDGs and Youth: development education and global citizenship education resource pack

This NYCI resource for Global Educators, Youth Workers, Development Education practitioners, trainers, activists and changemakers working with young people provides you with activity plans and tools to explore the issue of Activism and the Sustainable Development Goals.